Vin's Learning Journey

 This week we started Vin's castles theme as well as a variety of other activities. Here are the things we did this week: Vin helped with measuring, cutting, sanding, and drilling holes in batons of wood to make shelves for the airing cupboard. Vin made a true or false quiz about super mario characters. We looked at a guidebook about Leeds castle to find out how long it has been there and read about some of its previous owners. We read about the maze there and answered a quiz about it. We did some draw along videos of a piranha plant and a raccoon in a pumpkin! We did some experiments using special beads that changed colour in UV light. We used the UV torch and compared it to the sunlight . We checked to see if my sunglasses stopped the UV (they did) and the windows (they didn’t). Then vin tied the beads into a bracelet so he’s always ready for some UV experiments! Vinnie helped to prepare dinner, he calculated the amount of pasta for us all, weighed it out and put it on to boil. ...

 We read a book together about Spanish, where it’s spoken, some Spanish phrases and differences between the different countries where they speak it. We looked at the Spanish speaking countries on the globe. Then we used some other Spanish word books to solve a puzzle matching up Spanish words for foods with the English ones. We cut out circles from coloured card and used them to inspire a picture. At communigrow vinnie helped cut back some wildflowers so they wouldn’t spread their seeds and take over the area as they were stopping other wildflowers having a chance to grow. Then he dug up some comfrey from an area that is going to have a new pond and chopped the leaves into bits and put them in a barrel to rot down into fertiliser. Vinnie chose a meal to cook this week - he wanted to make a roast chicken. He wrote a shopping list of all the ingredients and then prepared the meal when they had arrived. He peeled apples and chopped them to make an apple sauce. He calculated what time ...